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    <p class="header1">Tutorial - Day to Day Scrum Tasks</p>
    <p>Welcome to Tackle! This tutorial will teach you how to use Tackle day-to-day during your sprint.</p>
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    <p class="header2">Section 1 - The End of the First Day</p>
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    <li>So today was the first day of your sprint. The team has finished their work and it's time to enter that work into Tackle. From the Tackle homepage, hover over the Sprint menu and click "Daily Scrum Entry".</li>
    
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    <li>If you are a resource on the scrum team, you may want to user the "Owner" dropdown at the top of the page to only view your tasks. From the dropdown, select your alias.</li>
    
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    <li>The goal for this section is to ensure that all work completed during the day is accurately reflected in Tackle. This means not only adding the amount of time spent working on tasks to the Actual column, but also updating the estimated time in the Remaining column. The following options are available for entering time:
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        <li>Using the Add Time dropdown, select the amount of time you wish to add to the amount of actual work completed. Doing this will subtract the same amount of time from the amount of work remaining. Use this option when you are still on track to complete the task in the original amount of time you estimated.</li>
        <li>Click the edit link to put the task in edit mode. Update the actual work completed and the amount of work remaining. Enter any notes relating to the task. You should use this option when more specific changes need to be made, for example adding time without removing remaining time or moving remaining time to punted time.</li>
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    <li>Are you having trouble completing the last step because the work you did today isn't a part of the planned work for the sprint? That means you have discovered work. Below are your options for handling discovered work:
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        <li>If your discovered work is related to a feature that has other tasks included in this sprint, click the "New Task" link in the footer of that feature. Complete the fields for the task, making sure to check the checkbox in the Discovered column. A discovered task has no base time, so ignore this column. Click "Update" when you are finished.</li>
        <li>If your discovered work is not related to a feature that has been included in this sprint you have two options - you can add the feature to the OOF group or the Discovered group. Add the task in the same way as above. If you are adding the task to the Discovered group, the checkbox in the Discovered column will be automatically checked.</li>
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    <li>When all of your tasks have been updated or added as neccessary, repeat this step each day of the sprint. At the end of the week you will be ready to move on to Section 2 - The End of the First Week.</li>
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    <p class="header2">Section 2 - The End of the First Week</p>
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    <li>At the end of the week, there are a few things you will want to look at in order to check the progress of your scrum team. From the Tackle homepage, hover over the Sprint menu at the top of the page and click "Burn Down Graph"</li>
    
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    <li>The Burn Down Graph shows the actual, remaining, scheduled, punted and discovered work. There is also a remaining trend line which predicts where you will be at the end of the sprint, based on your current progress. This graph is a visual representation of your sprint progress and you should check it often to make sure your team is on track.</li>
    
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    <li>The next thing you want to check is the Sprint Totals page. This is the page you used to balance work between your resources. From the Sprint menu at the top of the page click "Sprint Totals". In this section the important column to look at is the Ahead/Behind column. Negative values in this column will show you that your resources are falling behind (or not entering their time into Tackle)!</li>
    <li>When you have reviewed the current status of your scrum team, you may want to move on to Section 3 - Sending out Status Reports.</li>
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    <p class="header2">Section 3 - Sending out Status Reports</p>
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    <li>Tackle provides multiple status reports. From the Tackle homepage, hover over the Reports menu at the top of the page. You will see several options in this menu titled Weekly Status or Cross Team Status. You can read about the details of these report by clicking on help.</li>
    
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    <li>This tutorial will walk you through one of these status reports in detail, the Weekly Status (Product) report. Click on this option in the Reports menu.</li>
    <li>Select today's date from the calendar on the left side. The report will be generated for the seven days before the date you select in this calendar.</li>
    
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    <li>This report will show you the basic information about the sprint, taken from the the Scrum Schedule Entry page. If any of this data is incorrect you should update it there.</li>
    <li>The remaining sections of the report are described in more detail below:
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        <li><font class="header3">Items of Note</font> - When you export this report to Excel this section provides you with a space to enter any notes about the sprint which you wish to communicate in your status report.</li>
        <li><font class="header3">Active Sprint Tasks</font> - Any sprint task that was changed in the past seven days (based on the date selected in the calendar) will be shown here. The percentage shown is the percentage of work completed on this task.</li>
        <li><font class="header3">Remaining Sprint Tasks</font> - Any sprint task that has time remaining will be shown in this section. The percentage shown is the percentage of work left to complete.</li>
        <li><font class="header3">Burn Down Graph</font> - As described above, this graph is a visual indication of the sprint progress.</li>
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    <li>Now that you have reviewed the status report, let's export it to Excel and get it ready to send. From the "Select a Format" dropdown, select Excel and click Export.</li>
    
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    <li>Click "Open" to open this report in Excel.</li>
    <li>We need to touch up the Burn Down Graph, due to the way things export. Right click on the graph and select "Format Picture". For Office 2003, click the Size tab and click "Reset". Click the Picture tab and select "Compress". Click "OK". For Office 2007, click the Picture tab and click "Reset", then click "Close". Now from the Ribbon, choose Picture Tools, then Format and select Compress Pictures. Then click "OK".</li>
    <li>Now we need to clear the cell color around the Burn Down Graph. Select Cells F23 through D23. Click the "Fill Color" button and choose "No Fill". Select the "No Border" option for the cells.</li>
    <li>You are now ready to send this report to your customers. In Excel 2003, click on the File Menu and select "Send To" and the "Mail Recipient". In Excel 12 you will need to select all the contents of the report and copy it to a new email in Outlook 12. When you are ready, click "Send"!</li>
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